Senior Full Stack Engineer - Traffic Foundation (Remote - Canada)

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

Are you passionate about building impactful software that reaches millions? Join Yelp’s Traffic team and put your full stack engineering skills to work powering one of the internet’s most visited destinations for discovering and engaging with local businesses.

The Traffic team builds Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solutions that drive inbound traffic by optimizing how Yelp pages appear and rank in search results. The team also explores innovative ways to integrate with search providers' large language models (LLMs)—and leverages our own LLMs—to deliver greater value to our users at scale.

We’re looking for an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to work on both frontend and backend projects to enhance how search engines understand and rank Yelp content, analyze traffic data to uncover new opportunities, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features that drive real results. The work on this team is constantly evolving, highly impactful and directly tied to Yelp’s revenue.

Yelp experiences 4 billion sessions and 100 million monthly active users in the US alone and has continued to grow organically across all the markets where we operate. The Traffic team is responsible for half of that engagement. We see significant opportunities ahead to scale our impact and help even more people connect with great local businesses. Our goal is to make Yelp the top marketplace for consumers.

If the idea of solving complex technical challenges and working with our data to drive hundreds of millions of users to connect with millions of businesses excites you, we’d love to have you join us!

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

• Design and build new features to optimize how users search and connect with businesses at a large scale.
• Collaborate closely with the Yelp AI teams and our Product Managers to shape our product and technical roadmaps.
• Deploy projects in a Service-Oriented Architecture, from backend services to fully-featured UIs.
• Run SEO A/B experiments and dive into the resulting data to look for trends and insights related to traffic metrics
• Write clear and concise technical documentation.
• Mentor other engineers and share the skills you’ve learned.

What it takes to succeed:

• Strong knowledge of SEO and the different ways websites use Search Engines to increase organic sessions to their features.
• Ideally 4+ years of working experience in full-stack web development.
• Understanding of at least one popular server-side web framework (e.g. Django, Flask, Rails, Pyramid, Laravel, Express) and a modern JS frontend framework (e.g. React, Svelte, Vue, Ember).
• Understanding of Python development (with Apache Spark and Cassandra as back-end) interfacing with Machine Learning APIs.
• Strong debugging and investigative skills, especially with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Experience leading or contributing to technical roadmaps.
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance to lead large and complex projects involving multiple contributors in a highly collaborative, asynchronous, and distributed environment.

What you'll get:

• Compensation range is $101,000-237,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
• You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or 1-415-969-8488.

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